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Is this a wolf spider? She’s enormous - I was able to see her coming halfway down the driveway, but had no idea what she was until she got to the porch step.
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- Submitted: Apr 4, 2021
- Photographed: Apr 3, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Sacramento, California, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Looks like a fishing spider to me. They get pretty big and this one appears to have babies on her back.
Wolf Spider plus babies. I don’t know if Fishing Spiders do this. Fishing Spiders have pointy posteriors and their legs are less arched, more splayed.
I agree. The leg lengths and carapace stripe match Alopecosa kochi. https://bugguide.net/node/view/1030885/bgimage
Good to know! The wolf spiders I’ve seen didn’t have that much patterning on their legs, so I assumed fishing spider. Thanks for correcting me.